Lining-hoop nailing-horse.



Y W. J. OTT. LINING HOOP NAILING HORSE. APPLIOATIQN FILED NOV. 30, 1908.

931,793. Patented Aug. 24, 1909.

FEICE.

WILLARD J. OTT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

LINING-HOOP NAILING-HORSE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug; 24, 1909.

Application filed November 30, 1908. Serial No. 465,401.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLARD J. OTT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lining-Hoop Nail ing-Horses and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to nailing-horses of the type used in connection with the manufacture of veneer barrels or the like to form a firm su port therefor while the lininghoops are lieing nailed therein, and particularly to improvements on the construction of nailer-horse shown and described in my former United States Letters Patent N 0. 702,467, granted June 17, 1902.

The object of my invention is the provision of a simple, strong and eflicient device of this character, the work-supporting anvils of which are capable of being easily and quickly removed from their supporting standards to permit the substitution therefor of others adapted for different sizes of work, and which has its standards relatively adjustable to suit the length of the work operated on, and each provided with a removable nailing anvil, one of which is formed with a lug for gaging the position of the work thereon.

The invention is fully described in the following specification, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which;-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a nailinghorse embodying the features of my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation of one of the anvils removed from its standard, and Fig. 3 is a similar view of the upper portion of a standard with an anvil in position thereon.

Referring to the drawings, 1, 1 designate standards, which are provided with the diverging supporting-legs 2, 2 and have their heads each provided with a horizontal opening 3 into which the bar or rod 4, which connects the two standards, fits. The standards are relatively movable on the bar 4 to adapt them to be adjusted for different lengths of barrels, and are secured in adjusted position by set-screws .5, which are carried by the bosses in which the openings are provided, as shown. Each standard is shown as having its upper end forked to provide the spaced upwardly extending arms or projections 6, 6, the inner or contiguous sides of which are longitudinally grooved, as at 7, to form vertical guide-ways for receiving the legs 8 of an anvil 9. The anvil 9 has its top surface describing an arc of a circle, or may be otherwise fashioned, to substantially conform to the external contour of the barrel to be )laced thereon, and has its legs 8 adapted to ht in the ways 7 and preferably of sufficient length to enable them to rest at their lower ends on the top of the standard head. It is evident with this manner of mounting the anvils on the standards that they may be easily and quickly removed therefrom-by simply raising them to vertically withdraw their legs from the ways 7 and another adapted for work of different shape or size substituted therefor without necessitating the removal or insertion of bolts or screws for such purose. P In order to provide simple and efficient means for gaging the ositioning of the work on the anvils, one o the anvils of a set is rovided centrally between its ends with a aterally offset upwardly projecting spur or stop-lug 10 against which an end of the work may abut.

In the operation of my invention, the standards are first relatively adjusted on the rod 4: and the proper set of anvils dropped into engagement with the forked upper ends thereof to suit the length and peripheral co'ntour of the work. The work is now placed on the anvils with one end in abutment with the stop-lug 10 and with its opposite end portions, or the portions thereof to which the ining-hoops are to be secured, resting on the anvils. The anvils are intended to form a firm support for the work to facilitate a nailing of the lining-hoops thereto and also to clench the securing nails on the outer side of the work.

I desire it to be understood that my invention is not limited to any specific form or arrangement of parts except in so far as such limitations are specified in the claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,

1. In a lining-hoop nailing-horse, a standard having its head formed with spaced uprality of standards having their heads each 1 'provided with spaced upwardly-projecting standard and having pen guide-arms, said arms having their 'innersides longitudinally grooved, a member conneoting the standards for relative lateral adjustment, and an anvil su erimposing each dent portions cooperating with the grooves in the guide arms thereof whereby it is removably supported.

'3. In a lining-hoop nailing horse, a plurality of standards, having their heads each provided with laterally spaced vertically projecting guide-arms, a rod connecting said standards for relative lateral adjustment, and anvils having pendent portions in vertically sliding engagement with the guidearms of each standard whereby the anvils are removably supported thereby, one of said anvils havlng a work-gaging lug projecting therefrom, substantially as described. 7

In testimony whereof I' have hereunto signed my name to this specification inthe 'presence'of two subscribing Witnesses.

" WILLARD; oTT.

Witnesses: V

LILA WARTERFIE D, L. JAY CARTER. 

